Contemporaries Quote by Elliott Erwitt

I don't have the similar amount of success like my contemporaries have.

— Nushrat Bharucha

Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer…

— Edouard Boubat

The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly. Take a photographer like Mapplethorpe. Every single photograph…

— John Coplans

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or…

— Milton Friedman

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.

— Milton Friedman

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

— Christian Boltanski

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees…

— Graeme Le Saux

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

— Habib Umar bin Hafiz

I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of…

— David Hurn

The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really…

— Alexey Brodovitch

In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary.…

— Peter C Bunnell

The subject isn't always a help to the photographer, it's like handcuffs.

— Raymond Depardon

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

— George Bernard Shaw

Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find some things…

— Christine Elise

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot…

— Elliott Erwitt